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» 5 Things To Consider Before Hiring a Coach!
5 Things To Consider Before Hiring a Coach!
Back in the day I used to get my knickers in a right ol twist if someone said are you a personal trainer?
No I'm a strength and conditioning coach and then try and painfully explain the difference.
So what is the actual difference?
Let's start with what a Strength and Conditioning coach is.
Strength and Conditioning is about more than lifting weights – it encompasses the entire development of the athlete and what is needed to improve physical performance. This includes plyometrics, speed and agility, endurance and core stability with strength training being just one piece of the jigsaw.
The Key here is Improve Performance!
Now unfortunately the way it works in the ol fitness industry is what happens with elite athletes filters it way through to mainstream fitness and gyms.
Some good and some not so good shall we say!
See to work with elite athletes you're going to need some specific qualifications and experience coaching.
I'm not sure the average PT down at the gym despite having strength and conditioning on his bio has those.
Now this certainly doesn't mean they can't help you improve.
Theres some great PT's out there.
But all i'm saying is be careful when choosing your coach.
Here's 5 Things You Should Consider.
3. Do they just talk about themselves or do they show an actual interest in you and helping you achieve what you want?
5. Do they assess you're current fitness levels and write a specific plan for you or is it just a generic programme they give everyone?
Some little things for you to consider.
Because if you're going to use a coach they must be the right person for you.
It's why i offer a Free coaching session first.
To find out more about you and what you want.
Then you can decide if you want to work with me and vice versa.


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Usman Alkali Baba Biography, Early Life, Age, Family, Education, Career And Net Worth
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On this article, we might be seeing a couple of info you'll like to learn about Usman Alkali Baba, the brand new appearing Inspector Basic of Police. President Muhammadu Buhari just lately accepted the appointment of DIG Usman Alkali Baba to exchange Mohammed Adamu who retired from the Nigeria Police Drive in February 2021.
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Full names: Usman Alkali Baba
Date of beginning: 1st March 1963
Age: 58 years (2020)
Place of origin: Yobe State
Nationality: Nigerian
Training: Bayero College Kano
Marital standing: Married
Occupation: Police officer
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Usman Alkali Baba Biography, Date Of Start, Early Life, Household And Training
Usman Alkali Baba was born on the 1st of March, 1963 in Geidam Native Authorities Space of Yobe State. In 1980, he acquired a Instructor's Grade II Certificates from Lecturers Faculty, Potiskum, Yobe State.
Baba holds a Bachelor of Arts (ED) diploma in Political Science from the Bayero College Kano and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the College of Maiduguri. He was a member in fact 22/2014 2014 at Nationwide Defence Faculty and a fellow of the Worldwide Struggle Faculty
Usman Alkali Baba enlisted within the Nigeria Police on March 15, 1988. He later turned an assistant superintendent of police, earlier than gaining the promotion of commissioner of police on 27th January 2013. In 2014, he was posted to Delta State because the commissioner of police.
He served as DIG Drive CID, pressure secretary on the pressure headquarters, Abuja, Nigeria. He served in FCT because the deputy commissioner, investigation and within the workers school as a directing workers. He has additionally served in Kaduna because the deputy commissioner, administration and assistant commissioner, CID.
Baba served in Ilorin, Kwara State as an space commander. At Ebonyi State, he was the second-in-command. He has served in Jos, Gombe, Yola and Kaduna State as a divisional police officer (DPO). He was a former assistant inspector-general of police Zone 5, in control of Edo State, Delta State and Bayelsa State.
He turned an Assistant Inspector-Basic of Police (AIG) in July 2016.
Usman Alkali Baba was appointed because the IG of police on sixth April 2021 by the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari.
Usman Alkali Baba is fortunately married with youngsters.
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2013-11-21 Derek Pearcysystem Leave a comment
It's been a while. I was sick for nearly two weeks, after which I had to focus pretty seriously on work for a week in order to catch up from being ill. Then I had a week of intense work-related travel, followed by a week of reconnecting with my family. A month went by without having hardly written anything. But that little narrative isn't the only reason I haven't been updating the story-in-progress.
I started this with the idea of being perfectly honest about a story that means a lot to me. I wasn't entirely sure what the story was, only that I'd feel bad if I didn't tell it. The previous work has been the easiest writing I've ever done in my life: I'd sit down and I hammer out between 1,200 and 2,200 words in an hour or two, then I'd make a quick edit pass for dumb mistakes before publishing it. Sometimes I'd re-read it the next day and fix a few little things, but for the most part I've only been pushing forward. It's felt pretty cool.
Now I'm running up against a part of the story about a bunch of people who I still know, and talk to regularly, and care about. I know a few memoir writers who are happy to risk needing to make a new set of friends after publishing their intimate doings, but I'm not one of them. Still, after something like four attempts to push the story forward, I found myself dwelling too much over exact details versus my sense of things, and how I felt at the time. My memory of twenty years ago, you won't be surprised to hear, is flawed. I admit I was surprised. But the more I worked to get things right, the more stilted the writing turned out, likes blow-by-blow of someone else's long-forgotten boxing match. In a couple of cases, in trying to do justice to friends I found myself focused on telling other people's stories, and ultimately that's not what I'm here to do.
So what spare time I've had in the past month was filled with breakfasts, lunches, and dinners — and emails, and chat sessions — with a good number of people, some from mid-1990s Austin and other from my later days in California. I've done my best to tell people in general what I'm looking to write, specifically about them, in order to give them a good sense of where they fit in the story and to understand what they're comfortable with me writing.
Thankfully — mostly because the bulk of these stories do have something close to happy endings, at least for now — everyone has only been encouraging, and supportive, and understanding.
Here are the general rules I'm setting out.
If I mention you by name, it's either because I've reached out to you in advance about what I'm going to write (or, in a few cases, what I won't write), or it's because overall I don't expect to say anything too outrageous or mortifying. Hopefully we're either good-enough friends that you can trust I don't intend to be mean-spirited.
If I haven't mentioned you by name, but you know me and my stories well enough to know where things are headed and you're deeply uninterested in having your name anywhere near anything you're afraid I'm likely to say, please let me know now.
When I think a story might be too embarrassing for someone, whether or not we're still in touch, I'm changing the names and some inconsequential details in order to avoid stirring up too much of the past. To further obscure the trail in some cases, I'm combining a few individuals together as a sort of representative character. I'm told that this kind of simplification is acceptable in modern memoir, and if it means fewer hurt feelings then I'm good with that.
Ultimately, if you're a part of my story it's because I remember you fondly and I wish you well, regardless of how things went at the time. I hope you can accept that the foolishness of our youth is worth capturing as part of what made us the sober, mature, and responsible people that I presume we have all grown into being.
One massive exception to all of this: People who knew me when I lived in Austin know that there are some seriously strange threads to that overall narrative. With a few exceptions that I don't see a way to avoid, I've decided that getting into too much of the high weirdness would distract from the overall purpose of getting to California and talking about my time there. And it would probably be better served by a different voice, as well. There's likely a whole book that could be unpacked from that handful of years, in mid-1990s Austin. I'll probably find some way to write it after I'm done with this, God help us.
But given the work of this past month, I hope that reminding myself of the general order of things, and what I want to say, I've let the newly refreshed narrative settle back into my head where it can be cleanly and clearly mined. If I'm right, then now I can focus on nothing more than telling the story.
Because readers overwhelmingly want regular updates over bursts of text, I'm going to err on the side of scheduled posting. I'm shooting for Tuesdays and Thursdays. We'll see if I can do it.
So: thanks for reading so far, and buckle up. It may get a bit bumpy, but I hope you trust you're in good hands.
"Shall We Make A Game?" — 4
2013-11-21 Derek Pearcy Leave a comment
The game company was not far off the freeway, past four or five blocks of your standard, Twentieth Century American residential area. I drove a Toyota Celica, painted "Pull Me Over" red, and I loved whipping off the main road and gunning it down a slight slope of a hill to get to work each day. Because I was idealistic, I always got there early. Because I didn't know what it took to be successful, I often stayed there late.
I drove too fast around there, and pretty much everywhere — I know that now. Somehow, though, I managed to scrape by with only a few tickets through the years. I'm lucky I didn't hurt anyone along the way.
To get to the office, at the bottom of that minor slope of a hill, instead of veering left with the road you kept going forward, shooting up a short, gravel driveway and looping around our building to park beside the other cars in a long, dusty row around back. You wouldn't know it was a game company unless you'd been told, that stocky, two-story, flat-topped wooden building with a large aluminum barn attached. I don't know how old it was — maybe forty years, maybe more — though it couldn't have been surrounded by houses and convenience stores and apartment buildings when it'd been originally built. I remember hearing once that it had been grandfathered in, given that you weren't generally supposed to run a business of any real size in the middle of a residential community.
Steve had bought the place with some of his early gaming riches. The company had been pretty successful, ten years before. The structure had a lot of what you'd call deferred maintenance, but what we liked about it, and presumably what had attracted Steve in the first place, was that even though it was seriously in the middle of a sizable residential community, it still felt fairly isolated. A long stretch of overgrown grassland covered most of the side of the block leading down and up to the office itself and the sizable lot on which it rested.
The street-facing side of its hill had been leveled off to make a nice space for the building. There wasn't much hill left on the far side of the property from the street, just a low ridge about as tall as reasonable adult. Pressing up to the edge of the ridge was a tangle of thin greenery through which a derelict, wooden horse stable was slowly collapsing.
The game company was not in a great neighborhood, but back then in Austin there weren't a lot of great neighborhoods to be had. Five years earlier, the combination of a stock-market crash and absurdly low oil prices had plunged Texas into a something like a depression. Men in Houston had pulled their BMWs off the highway, leaving the keys in the ignition, and simply walked away. Even though I hadn't felt the impact of the collapse as a college student — outside of my parents moving nearly a thousand miles away in order for my father to find work — I obviously had not graduated into a robust economic environment. It wasn't the day-laborers milling around on the street corner, or the young single mothers cursing as they pushed strollers with stuck wheels. It was the paint on the houses, cracking but not yet peeling; it was how people quietly let you know which auto mechanic played loose with his inspections when you went to get the annual sticker so let you keep driving in a city that had no effective mass transit; it was how once you got to know people — at ice cream shops, sandwich places, breakfast joints — they'd spontaneously cut you a break or give you things for free, because clearly we were all in this together. Me, I was torn. I felt guilty for having a job doing something I loved — working at a game company, a job I thought paid decently — so I didn't talk about it much. At 23 years old I still looked 18, and I didn't think people took me seriously. I began dressing down, not combing my hair, not shaving. At the same time I resented somehow not being more successful, more appreciated.
It wasn't that big on the inside — the warehouse was, certainly, but not the offices themselves. Upstairs we had a reception area and a tiny kitchen, and Steve's office, followed by a stocky hallway off of which were four small chambers. One of them was usually empty. The largest office, and the only one with a locking door, was for the accountant, whoever that was at the time. The last two held a salesperson — almost always a saleswoman, while I was there — and a print buyer. I started out as the print buyer. Downstairs was different. There, besides the couple or three people who worked the warehouse, shipping books, magazines, and card games to our customers, you could usually find three or four editors working behind old, clunky monitors, along with an art director, a managing editor, and as many production artists as we could afford over any given couple of months.
Only after I'd been working there for more than a year did I hear — and I was embarrassed that someone had to tell me – that when the sunlight hit the building at the right time of day you could faintly make out the word "KENNEL," painted against the multi-story warehouse's aluminum siding in enormous white block letters. Some time in the distant past, that's what it had been. We used to joke that late at night, you could still hear the dogs crying in their pens. It wasn't actually funny, but that was fine; it wasn't meant to be funny. The sense of humor in the company culture at the time was dark to the point of being bleak.
Still, the place was pretty close to perfect, for a time. I'm getting ahead of myself.
The company had never really recovered from its early-90s slump, even after an eventual and much hyped cyberpunk game release. At a special sneak-preview for Robert Redford's excellent hacker-themed movie, Sneakers, one of the younger editors, Jeff, told me he was petrified about being laid off. This surprised me — he was a multi-talented guy, crazy smart and industrious. I told him I had no idea what he could be talking about. Why would there even be a layoff?
And it was true at least in some sense that I did not know what I was talking about. About a month later we had a layoff, a small one, with something like four people being let go. I don't recall the exact number, I only remember how bad I felt about it. Like my dad, most of the people who were cut had to move out of state in order to find decent work. Mostly editorial staff got cut, since we didn't have anything big in the pipeline outside of Steve's New Big Project, which was still nearly a year away on the schedule. Jeff made it through, though, which was cool. I was happy to have been right about him. Maybe I slightly knew what I was talking about.
All this to say that those of us who remained were grateful when the Secret Service money came through in the summer of 1993, a few months after the trial. At the same time, a strange kind of excitement and energy began to build around the office. Most people on the street, and around the clubs, and in the press, all seemed hard pressed to put a name on this new sense in the air. I knew what it was because I'd been waiting for it for nearly ten years. It was the Internet, and it was finally happening.
In the early summer, once the trial was through but before the money actually arrived, life began to change around the office, and it started with a new face. I walked in one day to find a new, scraggly bearded guy downstairs, standing with Steve in front of the editorial desks.
"Oh, Derek," Steve said, pointing at the new guy. "This is Doug. Doug knows a lot about a lot of things."
"Hey," said Doug, waving quickly.
"We were having an idea," Steve said. "Care to join us?"


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Venezuelan Anti-Gang Offensive Arrests Hundreds, Earns Popular Support
Hundreds were arrested across Venezuela in a mass anti-crime operation undertaken by state security forces to liberate territories occupied by paramilitary gangs in the capital district and bordering states of Miranda and Aragua on Monday.
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Caracas, July 15, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Hundreds were arrested across Venezuela in a mass anti-crime operation undertaken by state security forces to liberate territories occupied by paramilitary gangs in the capital district and bordering states of Miranda and Aragua on Monday.
In what has been denominated "Operation Liberation and Protection of the People" (OLP), thousands of police and national guard personnel participated in four simultaneous raids in the early hours of the morning aimed at confronting heavily armed paramilitary groups believed to have originated from Colombia.
In the Caracas neighborhood of San Miguel de la Cota, security forces detained 134 suspected criminals, of whom 32 are allegedly foreigners with links to Colombian paramilitaries.
Meanwhile, in Miranda state, 111 individuals were arrested in two separate raids in which authorities also confiscated illicit vehicles, firearms, as well as several kilos of drugs. A similar operation in Aragua state saw the reported dismantling of another gang with the detention of several suspected criminals.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro praised the operation as a critical blow against "Colombian paramilitarism" which he accused of seeking to infiltrate the country.
"With these four operations as a start, [...] we have in our hands the elements to demonstrate that Colombian paramilitarism, Colombian drug trafficking, and all of this conspiracy has come to take power [...] and install here a model that has done great harm to Colombia."
"I am firmly dedicated to dismantling [this model]," he continued, adding that OLP will reportedly continue over the coming days and be extended to other parts of Venezuela.
The operation met with strong backing by a large segment of poor and working class Venezuelans whose communities have borne the brunt of insecurity, in spite of international media reports that consistently profile the middle and upper class.
"For those of us in the community, we hope that each one of these actions continues in order to break up all of the gangs that are harming the people, the economy, as well as the security of the youth," says Jaime Palacios, a student at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela and resident of Petare, the deadliest barrio in Caracas.
Javier Gomez, 31, a resident of the barrio of Las Torres in the western Catia region of Caracas, also voiced support for the operation, adding that the government should step up efforts against corruption, hoarding, and contraband that often involve the country's middle and upper classes.
"We applaud these measures, but we also consider the question of crime to be a broad one. The business-person who hoards food items, who sets up front companies [to receive government dollars] is also a criminal."
"Crime must be attacked in all of its aspects," he told Venezuelanalysis.
Despite widespread popular support, the action faced criticism by the opposition human rights NGO PROVEA, who blasted state security forces for what it characterized as "excessive use of force".
Palacios dismissed PROVEA's allegations, arguing the organization's narrative doesn't square with the reality of close cooperation between communities and security forces that makes operations like Monday's feasible.
"As the community organizes itself and coordinates with police officials, it will advance significantly. At least in Cota, it was the very communal councils who denounced before authorities the presence of criminal gangs their neighborhood," Palacios stated.
In 2006, the Bolivarian government began a process of police reform that has seen the replacement of corrupt local police units with a national "preventive" police force supervised by "citizen police control committee" and trained at the human rights-centered National Experimental Security University.
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TRIPP EISEN's Bail Set At $1 Million; Next Court Appearance Scheduled For Wednesday
Former STATIC-X guitarist Tripp Eisen's bail has reportedly been set at $1 million on charges that include kidnapping, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Eisen, whose real name is Tod Rex Salvador, appeared in Central Justice Center Court in Santa Ana, California, on Monday afternoon (Feb. 28) and is scheduled to make his next appearance at the Central Superior Court in Santa Ana on Wednesday (March 2).
Eisen was arrested in Orange County, California, for allegedly meeting and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl two months ago in New Jersey. The 39-year-old musician allegedly met the Sayreville, New Jersey girl on the Internet, drove from Pennsylvania on January 7 to meet her, and assaulted her in a shopping center in Old Bridge, New Jersey. The girl's mother found out about the incident and alerted police.
Eisen faces a maximum of 30 years in prison if convicted on the kidnapping charge alone.
On February 10, Eisen was arrested on one felony count of crimes against children. Authorities from the Orange County (California) Sheriff's Department found the 39-year-old musician sleeping in a parked car with an underage female with whom he'd just had sexual intercourse, according to Bergen, New Jersey's The Record. Eisen was taken into custody and released on $100,000 bail several hours later.
Eisen's attorney, Mark Werksman, expressed confidence that his client's "name will be cleared."
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Chairman, McQuire Rens Global Consulting,
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Leadership Promotes Gender Equality
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Invest in workplace policies and programmes that open avenues for advancement of women at all levels and across all business areas, and encourage women to enter nontraditional job fields
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To open opportunities for women's career advancement in IT fields, a US-based multinational technology company maintains strategic partnerships with women's organizations in many of the countries where it operates, to promote education and training and recognize women's accomplishments in IT.
A large European airline company reaches out to youth through education projects to break down the barriers that traditionally limit women to certain jobs in the industry and men to others.
A large financial services company in Australia offers numerous initiatives aimed at supporting women in business, including an online platform to help Australian women connect with other women in business internationally to share information, research and career advice.
A Chinese international transport company established special employee committees to identify and design programmes and information tailored to the distinct needs and interests of female workers.
WE Principle 5: Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women
Enterprise Development, Supply Chain and Marketing Practices
Expand business relationships with women-owned enterprises, including small businesses, and women entrepreneurs
Support gender-sensitive solutions to credit and lending barriers
Ask business partners and peers to respect the company's commitment to advancing equality and inclusion
Respect the dignity of women in all marketing and other company materials
Ensure that company products, services and facilities are not used for human trafficking and/or labour or sexual exploitation
Recognizing the expanding role of women entrepreneurs, a large UK-based bank launched specialized financial services, microfinance opportunities and business loans and also provides an online resource center for women entrepreneurs running small and medium-sized enterprises.
A Swedish manufacturer helps women producers of raw materials in developing countries to trade directly with the manufacturer, thus improving their income by reducing the number of intermediaries in the supply chain.
To make the scope of violence against women visible to an international public, a global advertising company partnered with a UN organization to develop a public awareness campaign using television and the internet.
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Community Leadership and Engagement
Lead by example – showcase company commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment
Leverage influence, alone or in partnership, to advocate for gender equality and collaborate with business partners, suppliers and community leaders to promote inclusion
Work with community stakeholders, officials and others to eliminate discrimination and exploitation and open opportunities for women and girls
Promote and recognize women's leadership in, and contributions to, their communities and ensure sufficient representation of women in any community consultation
Use philanthropy and grants programmes to support company commitment to inclusion, equality and human rights
A large international cosmetics company launched and sold products to raise funds for community-based organizations working to end domestic violence around the world.
A multinational mining company with operations in Ghana implemented a gender mainstreaming programme to encourage female employees to assume greater responsibility within the mine and connect to the local community.
A US-based multinational apparel manufacturer awards grants to community-based organizations to empower women in localities where it does business.
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Daniel Chávez Morales (born 27 January 1966) is a Guatemalan former tennis player.

Chávez represented Guatemala at the 1987 Pan American Games and won a bronze medal in the men's doubles, with Fabio Sical. They were beaten in the semi-finals by eventual gold medalists Luke Jensen and Patrick McEnroe.

Debuting in 1990, Chávez featured in a total of 31 ties for the Guatemala Davis Cup team. He won 29 rubbers for his country, 12 in singles and 17 in doubles. His doubles win tally is a national record and includes nine partnering his brother Jacobo. In his final Davis Cup appearance in 2004 he also served as team captain.

In 2007 he was appointed to captain Guatemala in the Fed Cup.

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1966 births
Living people
Guatemalan male tennis players
Competitors at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Guatemala
Tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in tennis
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Guatemala
Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
20th-century Guatemalan people
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Big News - A Student Visa. We can all celebrate today!
I'm sure you were on the edge of your seat, unable to sleep the past two nights, just like me. Well we can rest easy tonight. After her scheduled appointment on Wednesday was canceled, Temvelo was able to get in for an interview on Thursday and came out with some good news - her student visa was granted.
What a relief! You'd think that getting a student visa should be a simple thing, but it rarely is, especially for students from rural Africa. So we are delighted that there were no problems this time.
One step closer to making her dream a reality. Now she can get that plane ticket. I can only imagine how excited she must be. In just over one month she'll be starting classes in Berea. What a huge accomplishment! We're so happy for her and excited to watch her grow over the coming years.
Also, we just finished reviewing our 2014 applications so we'll be announcing our selections very soon. Stay tuned!
In the meantime feel free to do a little summer shopping. Make your purchases at AmazonSmile and Amazon will donate a portion of each purchase to Africa's Tomorrow. Or if you want to skip the shopping and simply make a donation, we'll love you even more.
Thank you for your support, and happy 4th of July!


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https://apnews.com/article/nfl-los-angeles-football-sean-mcvay-los-angeles-rams-50b4956cea17a6022a8513ffcd8863d2
Sean McVay
Wade Phillips
Rams have built a dominant defense midway through season
By GREG BEACHAMNovember 5, 2020 GMT
Los Angeles Miami Dolphins running back Myles Gaskin (37) is tackled by Los Angeles Rams safety Taylor Rapp (24) and middle linebacker Micah Kiser (59) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Sean McVay's offseason decision to ditch Wade Phillips in favor of a 37-year-old career assistant who had never been an NFL defensive coordinator seemed quite capable of burning the Los Angeles Rams with hubris.
Instead, Brandon Staley has made an already good defense great through the first half of the season, keeping the Rams (5-3) in NFC West contention despite inconsistency from McVay's offense all year long.
"They've definitely played at a really high level," McVay said of his defense. "I think we're really getting very comfortable with some of the nuances and the newer things that we're doing. You're really starting to see some of our players shine, and they've done an excellent job. I've been very pleased with them."
McVay had ample reason to be thrilled with the growth of Staley's defense as the Rams headed into their bye week with much bigger challenges ahead.
Four years after he was working at Division III John Carroll University, Staley is running the stingiest defense in the NFL judged by yards. While it hasn't been perfect, particularly in two of the Rams' losses, it's tough to imagine a rookie coordinator getting more out of an ostensibly depleted talent group built around superstars Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey.
The Rams are allowing a league-low 291.9 yards per game and 4.7 yards per play, while only one team has allowed opponents to convert fewer third downs (33.3%). Los Angeles is tied for third in the league with 19 points allowed per game, just a fraction behind the league leaders.
Los Angeles has allowed the fourth-fewest yards rushing (94.8) and the second-fewest yards passing (197.1). Opponents have gained an NFL-low 5.2 net yards per pass attempt, a stat boosted by the Rams' 25 sacks, fourth in the league.
The Rams went into their break last weekend by holding Miami to 145 yards and 10 offensive points, thoroughly shutting down the Dolphins in Tua Tagovailoa's heralded debut game. The performance was just the latest in a trend for the Rams, who have held five consecutive opponents without an offensive touchdown in the second half while clamping down all over the field.
There are several reasons for the defense's success, but the biggest appear to be flexibility, smarts, and Staley's ability to make good halftime adjustments.
"I think we've executed at a high level coming out in the second half," Staley said. "I think that we've got a group of players that is very confident in one another. They know that it's a long game."
That group didn't appear to be as impressive this year, but those presumptions have been quite wrong. Los Angeles lost several key contributors in the offseason — including leading tackler Cory Littleton, edge rusher extraordinaire Dante Fowler, nickel back Nickell Robey-Coleman, and veteran safety Eric Weddle — and replaced only Fowler from outside the organization by signing Leonard Floyd, who has four sacks.
"We've got a good group of guys who are committed to learning and improving, and we know there's a lot of things we can get better at," defensive tackle Michael Brockers said. "Moving forward, it's just all about preparing and getting better each day."
The defense will get another boost after the break when run-stopping defensive tackle A'Shawn Robinson makes his debut. Robinson missed training camp and nearly sat out the season with an undisclosed medical condition after signing a two-year, $17 million deal with the Rams in the offseason.
One potential caveat in the Rams' defensive success is the fact they've played four games against the NFC East, the league's worst division. Still, Los Angeles also shut down Chicago and Miami while making strong adjustments to slow down Buffalo and San Francisco late in eventual losses.
Nine of the Rams' sacks are the responsibility of Donald, who shares the NFL lead with Cleveland's Myles Garrett. Donald is the two-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and he's on track for a third award with his destructive season on the Los Angeles line.
"He could win it every year, in my opinion," Ramsey said. "It's starting to get to the point where everyone knows he's the best, so no matter how great he does, people sometimes don't look at it as, 'Wow, that's amazing' because they're getting used to it.
"It's kind of like what happens to basketball players sometimes, what happened to Kobe and LeBron," Ramsey said. "What happens to LeBron all the time, he's the best player and Most Valuable Player a lot of the time, but it's kind of expected, so it isn't glorified as much as it should be, in my opinion. But AD should probably be Defensive Player of the Year every year."
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Geotechnische Erkundung und Untersuchung - Geotechnische Messungen - Teil 5: Spannungsänderungsmessungen mittels Druckmessdosen (ISO 18674 5:2019)
Dieses Dokument trifft Festlegungen zu Spannungsänderungsmessungen mittels Druckmessdosen. Die allgemeinen Regeln für die messtechnische Überwachung des Baugrunds, der mit dem Baugrund in Wechselwirkung stehenden Bauwerke, geotechnischer Auffüllungen und geotechnischer Bauarbeiten sind in ISO 18674 1 angegeben.
Wenn dieses Dokument in Verbindung mit ISO 18674 4 angewandt wird, erlaubt es die Bestimmung der im Baugrund wirkenden effektiven Spannung.
Dieses Dokument gilt für:
- die Überwachung von Änderungen des Spannungszustands im Baugrund und in geotechnischen Bauwerken (z. B. Erddämme oder Tunnelschalen);
- die Überwachung von Drücken an der Grenzfläche zwischen zwei Bauteilen (z. B. Erddruck auf Stützwände; Flächenlast an der Sohle einer Gründung);
- die Überprüfung geotechnischer Entwürfe und die Anpassung von Konstruktionen im Zusammenhang mit der Beobachtungsmethode;
- die Bewertung der Standsicherheit während der Ausführung und im Endzustand.
Ein Leitfaden zur Anwendung von Druckmessdosen in der Geotechnik ist in Anhang B enthalten.
ANMERKUNG Dieses Dokument erfüllt die Anforderungen an die mittels Druckmessdosen durchgeführte messtechnische Überwachung des Baugrunds, der mit dem Baugrund in Wechselwirkung stehenden Bauwerke und geotechnischer Bauarbeiten im Rahmen der geotechnischen Erkundung und Untersuchung nach EN 1997 1 [1] und EN 1997 2 [2].
Reconnaissance et essais géotechniques - Surveillance géotechnique par instrumentation in situ - Partie 5: Mesures avec capteurs hydrauliques (ISO 18674-5:2019)
Le présent document spécifie la mesure des variations de pression à l'aide de cellules de pression totale (TPC). Les règles générales relatives à la réalisation d'un suivi du terrain, des structures en interaction avec le terrain, des remblais géotechniques et des travaux géotechniques sont présentées dans l'ISO 186741.
S'il est appliqué conjointement à la norme ISO 186744, le présent document permet de déterminer les contraintes effectives agissant dans le terrain.
Le présent document s'applique:
— à la surveillance des changements de l'état de contrainte dans le terrain et les structures géotechniques (p. ex. dans des barrages en terre ou des revêtements de tunnel);
— à la surveillance des pressions de contact à l'interface entre deux milieux (p. ex. poussée des terres sur un mur de soutènement; pression de contact à la base d'une fondation);
— au contrôle des calculs géotechniques et à l'ajustement d'une construction en lien avec la méthode observationnelle;
— à l'évaluation de la stabilité durant ou après la construction.
Les directives pour l'utilisation de TPC en génie géotechnique sont présentées à l'Annexe B.
NOTE Ce document satisfait aux exigences relatives à la surveillance du terrain, des structures interagissant avec le terrain et des travaux géotechniques au moyen de TPCs, dans le cadre de la reconnaissance et des essais géotechniques conformément à l'EN 1997-1[1] et l'EN 1997-2[2].
Geotehnično preiskovanje in preskušanje - Geotehnične meritve - 5. del: Merjenje sprememb napetosti s tlačnimi merskimi celicami (ISO 18674-5:2019)
Ta standard je 5. del skupine standardov ISO 18674, kot je opisano v standardu ISO 18674-1: 1. del: Splošna pravila. Določa metode in pravila za merjenje skupnih napetosti v geotehničnem inženiringu ali splošneje v inženirstvu temeljev. Z napetostmi v tleh ali kamninah se presoja obremenitve zgrajenih konstrukcij v tleh.
EN ISO 18674-5:2019 - Geotechnical investigation and testing - Geotechnical monitoring by field instrumentation - Part 5: Stress change measurements by total pressure cells (TPC) (ISO 18674-5:2019)
Geotehnično preiskovanje in preskušanje - Geotehnične meritve - 5. del: Merjenje
sprememb napetosti s tlačnimi merskimi celicami (ISO 18674-5:2019)
Geotechnical investigation and testing - Geotechnical monitoring by field instrumentation
- Part 5: Stress change measurements by total pressure cells (TPC) (ISO 18674-5:2019)
Geotechnische Erkundung und Untersuchung - Geotechnische Messungen - Teil 5:
Spannungsänderungsmessungen mittels Druckmessdosen (ISO 18674 5:2019)
Reconnaissance et essais géotechniques - Surveillance géotechnique par
instrumentation in situ - Partie 5: Mesures avec capteurs hydrauliques (ISO 18674-
5:2019)
ICS 13.080.20; 93.020
Geotechnical investigation and testing - Geotechnical
monitoring by field instrumentation - Part 5: Stress change
measurements by total pressure cells (TPC) (ISO 18674-
Reconnaissance et essais géotechniques - Surveillance Geotechnische Erkundung und Untersuchung -
géotechnique par instrumentation in situ - Partie 5: Geotechnische Messungen - Teil 5:
Mesures avec capteurs hydrauliques (ISO 18674- Spannungsänderungsmessungen mittels
5:2019) Druckmessdosen (ISO 18674 5:2019)
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 11 October 2019.
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by April 2020, and conflicting national standards shall be
withdrawn at the latest by April 2020.
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
testing — Geotechnical monitoring by
field instrumentation —
Stress change measurements by total
pressure cells (TPC)
Reconnaissance et essais géotechniques — Surveillance géotechnique
par instrumentation in situ —
Partie 5: Mesures de la variation de pression par cellules de pression
totale (TPC)
5 Instruments ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
5.2 Deformation measuring method ............................................................................................................................................. 7
5.3 Compensation measuring method ......................................................................................................................................... 7
5.4 Stiffness of the pressure compartment .............................................................................................................................. 8
5.5 Shape of the pressure compartment .................................................................................................................................... 8
5.6 Accuracy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
6 Installation and measuring procedure ......................................................................................................................................10
6.1 Installation ...............................................................................................................................................................................................10
6.1.1 Installation in the ground ......................................................................................................................................10
6.1.2 Installation in fill ...........................................................................................................................................................11
6.1.3 Installation in concrete/shotcrete .................................................................................................................12
6.1.4 Installation in contact planes .............................................................................................................................13
6.2 Carrying out the measurement ..............................................................................................................................................14
6.2.1 Instrumentation check and calibration .....................................................................................................14
6.2.2 Measurement ...................................................................................................................................................................14
7 Data processing and evaluation .........................................................................................................................................................14
8 Reporting ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................14
8.1 Installation report .............................................................................................................................................................................14
8.2 Monitoring report ..............................................................................................................................................................................14
Annex A (normative) Evaluation procedure ..............................................................................................................................................15
Annex B (informative) Geo-engineering applications .....................................................................................................................17
Annex C (informative) Measuring examples ..............................................................................................................................................18
editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 (see www .iso .org/directives).
on the ISO list of patent declarations received (see www .iso .org/patents).
World Trade Organization (WTO) principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) see www .iso
.org/iso/foreword .html.
This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 182, Geotechnics.
A list of all parts in the ISO 18674 series can be found on the ISO website.
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Geotechnical investigation and testing — Geotechnical
monitoring by field instrumentation —
Stress change measurements by total pressure cells (TPC)
This document specifies the measurement of stress changes by means of total pressure cells (TPC).
General rules of performance monitoring of the ground, of structures interacting with the ground, of
geotechnical fills and of geotechnical works are presented in ISO 18674-1.
If applied in conjunction with ISO 18674-4, this document allows the determination of effective stress
acting in the ground.
This document is applicable to:
— monitoring changes of the state of stress in the ground and in geo-engineered structures (e.g. in
earth fill dams or tunnel lining);
— monitoring contact pressures at the interface between two media (e.g. earth pressure on retaining
wall; contact pressure at the base of a foundation);
— checking geotechnical designs and adjustment of construction in connection with the Observational
Design procedure;
— evaluating stability during or after construction.
Guidelines for the application of TPC in geotechnical engineering are presented in Annex B.
NOTE This document fulfils the requirements for the performance monitoring of the ground, of structures
interacting with the ground and of geotechnical works by the means of total pressure cells as part of the
geotechnical investigation and testing according to EN 1997-1 and EN 1997-2 .
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies
ISO 18674-1:2015, Geotechnical investigation and testing — Geotechnical monitoring by field
instrumentation — Part 1: General rules
ISO 18674-4, Geotechnical investigation and testing — Geotechnical monitoring by field instrumentation —
Part 4: Measurement of pore water pressure: Piezometer
ISO 22475-1, Geotechnical investigation and testing — Sampling methods and groundwater
measurements — Part 1: Technical principles for execution
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 18674-1 and the following apply.
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total pressure cell
field instrument for stress change measurements
Note 1 to entry: Typically, a total pressure cell system consists of a pressure compartment, a pressure tubing, a
pressure measuring device, a measuring line and a control and readout unit (see Figure 1 and Reference [3]).
Note 2 to entry: The pressure compartment consists of two steel platens, welded together around their
peripheries, where the intervening cavity is filled with a liquid. The cavity is connected to the inner chamber
of a pressure measuring device via a liquid-filled pressure tubing. Inner and outer chambers of the pressure
measuring device are separated by a flexible diaphragm.
Note 3 to entry: Total pressure cells are permanently installed either in fill or soft ground (embedment pressure
cells) (3.2), in contact planes between any two media (contact pressure cells) (3.3) or in boreholes (borehole
pressure cells) (3.4).
Note 4 to entry: The target of the measurement is the change of the total normal stress Δσ of the medium acting
onto the flat side of a pressure compartment (see 1 in Figure 1).
1 pressure compartment
2 pressure tubing
3 pressure measuring device
3a inner chamber
3b outer chamber
3c diaphragm
4 height of the cavity of the pressure compartment
5 height of the pressure compartment
6 measuring line (electric cable or twin hydraulic tubing)
7 control and readout unit
8 medium investigated
Figure 1 — Principal components of a TPC measuring system
embedment pressure cell
total pressure cell (3.1) which is fully embedded within a medium
EXAMPLE Push-in cell in soft soil; "tangential cell" in shotcrete tunnel lining (see 4 in Figure 2); embedment
cell in fill (see Figure 3).
contact pressure cell
total pressure cell (3.1) which is placed in a contact plane between two media
EXAMPLE Cell at the base of a slab foundation; "radial cell" (see 3.9) in shotcrete tunnel lining.
borehole pressure cell
total pressure cell (3.1) which is installed in a borehole
Note 1 to entry: See 2 in Figure 2.
ratio of height to the smallest lateral dimension of the pressure compartment
Note 1 to entry: For rectangular compartments, the smallest lateral dimension is the width, for circular
compartments the diameter.
Note 2 to entry: Typical aspect ratios are of the order of 1:20 to 1:40.
total stress
stress in the ground carried by the solid portion (skeleton) of the ground and the pore water
Note 1 to entry: One only stress component can be monitored by a total pressure cell (3.1) (which is the change of
the total normal stress Δσ ).
Note 2 to entry: Changes of 2-D and 3-D stress states can be monitored by a cluster of a sufficient number of
independently oriented TPC compartments installed at a measuring location: Three compartments for a 2-D
stress state, and six compartments for a 3-D stress state.
Note 3 to entry: By placing a TPC compartment with its sensing side towards the vertical, the vertical normal
stress component σ can be directly monitored.
effective stress
stress in the ground carried by the solid portion (skeleton) of the ground
Note 1 to entry: It is σ' = σ - u
σ' is the effective stress tensor;
σ is the total stress tensor;
u is the porewater pressure.
The formula above is only applicable to saturated soil.
stress component which acts normal to a contact plane
EXAMPLE Normal stress acting in the interface between a slab foundation and the ground.
Note 1 to entry: Shear stresses acting within the contact plane cannot be measured by a TPC (3.1).
radial stress
specific contact stress (3.8) between the ground and a tunnel lining
Note 1 to entry: Radial TPCs (3.1) ("radial cells") are especially designed for monitoring radial stresses.
tangential stress
hoop stress monitored within shotcrete or concrete tunnel linings
Note 1 to entry: Tangential TPCs (3.1) ("tangential cells") are especially designed for monitoring tangential
stresses in tunnel linings. An alternative term is "concrete TPC".
1 borehole (vertically down-dipping; back-filled)
2a, 2b, 2c array of three differently oriented borehole TPCs for monitoring horizontal ground stresses
3 radial TPCs at the ground/shotcrete lining interface
4 tangential TPCs in the shotcrete lining
5 shotcrete lining
6 tunnel excavation contour
Figure 2 — Example of a TPC layout in near-surface tunnelling
A clay core 1 TPC (single or cluster)
B filter zone 2 piezometer
C rock fill
NOTE Zones A and C have independent cable routing systems (see 6.1.2.5).
Figure 3 — Example (schematic) of a TPC layout in an earth dam
Symbol Name Unit
C edge correction factor —
E Young's modulus MPa
h elevation of measuring station in compensation method m
h elevation of the TPC in compensation method m
p pressure in the outer chamber of the measuring device MPa
p pressure in a follow-up measurement MPa
p hydrostatic pressure difference between the external measuring station and TPC MPa
pressure of the liquid in the compartment and in the inner chamber of the measur-
p MPa
ing device
p pressure loss in the compensation delivery line MPa
p pre-tensioning pressure MPa
p pressure in reference measurement MPa
p pressure reading taken at the outside measuring station MPa
u pore water pressure MPa
γ specific weight of compensation fluid N/m
σ ; σ ' normal stress (total; effective) MPa
Δσ difference of total normal stress MPa
σ vertical stress MPa
σ maximum horizontal stress MPa
σ minimum horizontal stress MPa
5 Instruments
5.1.1 It shall be noted that TPC measurements are prone to substantial errors as the presence of
the cell in the medium tends to create significant changes in the stress field which is the target of the
measurement.
NOTE 1 See Figure 4 (Reference [5]).
NOTE 2 The selection of appropriate instruments, adherence to their range of application and adequate
installation procedures are critical to reduce these errors to acceptable levels (see 5.4 and 5.6).
a) TPC stiffer than medium b) TPC softer than medium
(over-registering TPC) (under-registering TPC)
I stress trajectories around a TPC 1 pressure compartment embedded in a medium.
II normal stress profile A — A'
Figure 4 — Registering effect of embedded TPCs
5.1.2 Deformation and compensation measuring methods should be distinguished from each other
(see Table 1).
Table 1 — Monitoring features associated with TPC measuring methods
Measuring TPC Atmospheric pressure Automatic
stability of Logging speed
method stiffness compensation data acquisition
sensor signal
Deformation tends to be depends, amongst independent barometric amenable comparatively
(see 5.2) soft others, on the pressure monitoring may quick
type of electrical be needed
sensors used
vented TPC tend to be
Compensation tends to be tends to be long- vented TPC tend to be cumbersome; comparatively
(see 5.3) stiff term stable reliable comparatively slow
costly
5.1.3 Any change of the total normal stress Δσ acting onto the flat side of a pressure compartment (1
in Figure 1) shall be uniquely associated with a change of the pressure of the liquid in the intervening
cavity of the compartment.
5.1.4 The stiffness of the pressure compartment in sensing direction should be low in comparison with
the stiffness of the pressure tubing and the housing of the pressure measuring device.
5.1.5 The shape and location of the pressure measuring device shall not affect the total normal stress
σ of the medium acting onto the pressure compartment.
NOTE A common technical solution is a TPC where the measuring device is located sufficiently far away from
the pressure compartment, and where the pressure compartment and measuring device are interconnected by a
stiff pressure tubing.
5.1.6 The pressure measuring device (3 in Figure 1) typically is a diaphragm pressure transducer. The
cavity of the interconnected components compartment, tubing and measuring device shall be completely
filled with, in engineering terms, an incompressible and de-aired liquid. The difference in elevation
between compartment and measuring device should be so small that it can be neglected in the evaluation
procedure (see A.1.1).
5.1.7 The housing of the pressure measuring device should be sufficiently stiff so that even high
ground pressures acting onto the outer side of the device do not affect the mechanical behaviour of the
diaphragm, in particular its calibration characteristics.
NOTE Experience in high embankments has shown that the earth pressure, acting on the housing of a
pressure transducer, can cause a substantial shift of the zero-point and a change in the linearity of the transducer.
5.2 Deformation measuring method
5.2.1 The measurement of the deflection of the diaphragm of the pressure measuring device (see 3c in
Figure 1) can be used as a method for measuring the pressure of the liquid in the intervening cavities.
NOTE Commonly, the diaphragm separating the inner chamber and outer chamber coincides with the
measuring diaphragm of an electric pressure transducer.
5.2.2 The pressure in the outer chamber of the measuring device (see 3b in Figure 1) shall be either
constant or atmospheric.
5.2.3 If TPC measurements are influenced by changes of the atmospheric pressure, thesee should be
monitored separately.
NOTE Attempts to circumvent this issue by integrating a small venting tube into the measuring line (see 6
in Figure 1) are often marred with difficulties, as such tubes tend to become blocked by condensed water. This
feature is in contrast to the compensation measuring method (see 5.3 and Table 1).
5.2.4 Deformation measurements carried out directly at the platens of the pressure compartment,
e.g. by means of strain gauges or built-in vibrating wire sensors, should be avoided as this measuring
procedure will typically result in compartment dimensions with high aspect ratios leading to
unfavourable embedment conditions (see 6.1) and ill-defined edge correction factors (see A.1).
5.3 Compensation measuring method
5.3.1 In TPC compensation measuring systems, any changes of the distance between the platens of the
pressure compartment caused by Δσ shall be compensated by an externally applied pressure p .
NOTE The common practice is hydraulic application of p at comparatively high pressure levels and
pneumatic application of p at comparatively low pressure levels.
5.3.2 Compensation should be carried out at the diaphragm (3c in Figure 1) of the pressure measuring
device. Any deflection of the diaphragm, as described in 5.2.1, shall be compensated by a pressure p
acting in the outer chamber of the device.
5.3.3 The compensation point shall be clearly defined and well identifiable when making the
measurement. Pressure valve or electric diaphragm switch techniques may be employed.
5.4 Stiffness of the pressure compartment
In sensing direction, the stiffness of the pressure compartment should conform to the stiffness of
the medium.
NOTE 1 Stress concentration effects influence the measuring results yielding either systematically too low or
too high values (see Figure 4).
NOTE 2 Amongst the factors which influence the stiffness of the TPC system are the following:
— measuring principle (deformation, see 5.2, versus compensation, see 5.3; see also Table 1);
— aspect ratio;
— height of liquid-filled cavity (4 in Figure 1);


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Ram's electric pickup concept will be revealed in less than a month
There's a Ford electric pickup truck and a Chevy one, too. So what can we expect from the Ram Revolution Concept?
By Kristin Shaw | Published Dec 9, 2022 10:00 AM
The 2022 Ram 1500 pickup. An electric Ram pickup will be unveiled early next year. Stellantis / Ram
Now in its fifth generation, the Ram 1500 pickup truck was originally born as the Dodge Ram in 1981. It made the moniker switch in 2010, and soldiered on as your average full-size pickup truck until it was treated to a full makeover for model year 2019, earning accolades the brand hadn't seen before. In sales numbers, the Big Three truck manufacturers compete for customer dominance, with the Ford F-150 handily leading the market and the Chevrolet Silverado and Ram 1500 trailing behind in a relatively distant second and third.
In that order, the automakers have released their versions of all-electric pickup trucks. Ford launched its F-150 Lightning EV last year, and Chevy plans to start selling its Silverado next year for model year 2023. Meanwhile, Ram is hyping its version of a full-size electric truck, aiming to unveil the Ram Revolution Concept on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares will take the stage for the keynote.
One of the first questions that pickup truck tire-kickers ask is how much the vehicle can tow and haul. Ram hasn't answered that query definitively yet, but CEO Mike Koval enthusiastically set the bar high, saying the Revolution would "push past" its competitors' "core attributes," like hauling and towing. Considering the F-150 Lightning claims 10,000 pounds of towing capacity and the Silverado EV has advertised matching numbers, it's almost a certainty that Ram is shooting to beat that.
As for other automakers, Tesla says its Cybertruck will tow up to 14,000 pounds, but after three years with not a single Cybertruck on the road, it's difficult to muster the energy to buy in.
Rivian is the current outlier with its R1T offering an estimated 11,000 pounds of towing capacity. On the surface, the R1T seems to be significantly more expensive than the Lightning or Silverado EV, with a starting price of $67,500. Ford put together a similar strategy for its F-150 Lightning, starting at just under $54,000 and soaring to nearly $83,000 with the extended range battery that improves both towing and distance between full charging. And, while the Silverado EV costs $42,000 for its Work Truck variant, that's a stripped-down model that won't appeal to many; the cost is estimated to jump up to $75,000 for the well-equipped LTZ trim.
As for range, Ram says the Revolution will achieve 500 miles on a full charge, which is more than the Lightning (230-320 estimated miles), the Silverado EV (up to 400 miles) and the Rivian R1T (314 miles). Tesla claims the Cybertruck will get 500 miles of range, but imaginary trucks can't travel far.
Where it could set itself apart
A new teaser video of a clay model appears to show a two-door single-cab truck, which is different from the Lightning, Silverado EV, Hummer EV pickup, Cybertruck, and R1T, all of which are four-door vehicles. However, spy photographers captured pictures of the Revolution mocked up with a crew cab and long bed, which suggests that perhaps the Ram 1500 BEV (battery electric vehicle) will be available in a variety of body styles like the gas-powered version.
Stellantis reporting specialists Mopar Insiders snapped the spy photos, and the reporter developed some assumptions based on what the pictures show. Referencing Stellantis' EV Day 2021 event, Mopar Insiders recalled a claim that vehicles built on the new EV-ready frame architecture will include individual electric drive modules (EMDs) capable of 330 kilowatts (443 horsepower) each and that each frame can accommodate up to three of those modules. Considering the Lightning uses two EDMs and the GMC Hummer EV uses three as well, Insiders believes a Ram Revolution with three motors can generate up to 990 kilowatts, or more than 1,320 horsepower. (That's a lot.)
On top of that, Koval said the Revolution will be enhanced by a gasoline or diesel-fueled range extender. You can think of a gas-powered range extender as the exact opposite of a hybrid, which harnesses the power of an electric motor to boost the initial torque. Ram has experience with hybrids, as it launched its eTorque mild hybrid system in 2019 on the Ram 1500. Ram's eTorque replaces the traditional alternator and adds more functionality for a quieter ride, improved fuel economy, and better towing and hauling capability.
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, has become a popular platform for technology and vehicle reveals; in fact, GM CEO Mary Barra unveiled the Chevrolet Silverado EV at the 2021 event. While Ram is trailing the Silverado by a year, that may not be a detractor for the Stellantis brand considering all-electric trucks are still such a new entity. Truck buyers are still skeptical of towing numbers and range when it comes to EVs, and the uptake is going to take more time. By the time the Revolution arrives in dealerships in 2024, the market (and the beleaguered supply chain, which has struggled to manufacture the necessary chips that run the electronics systems) will hopefully be ready.
Kristin Shaw
Kristin Shaw has been writing about cars for Popular Science since 2022. She accrued extensive experience in the telecommunications, tech, and aviation sectors before she became an automotive journalist specializing in anything with wheels.


And you still won't find this on kiwiblog.
Last month I posted about how the newly installed Mayor of London Boris Johnson had lost two senior advisors. Well, he's gone and lost another.
After only a few months in the job, first deputy mayor Tim Parker has resigned. Parker, a prominent businessman, said he was resigning because he didn't think Johnson needed a full-time first deputy mayor. City Hall insiders said that the move was the result of 'restructuring'.
At least this time the resignation didn't follow a controversy. But how does that old saying go, "To lose one senior advisor might be regarded as misfortune…" The word is that the eighth floor of City Hall is rife with chaos. It would be funny if London weren't one of the world's great cities.
You could put it down to those nice Crosby-Textor people who apparently repackaged Boris and sold the inexperienced lightwieght to the unsuspecting burghers, who had grown tired of the sour-faced, though competent, incumbent. Still, couldn't happen here, could it!?
Winston Peters is undoubtedly grieving for his mother. No matter what we think of him, he is entitled to our human compassion and sympathy at this time. He has mine.
As Newzblog says of whale oil, "It's no secret he gets a rise out of attacking the weak and defenceless." This may just be another attempt to satisfy that vile urge, or to maintain a profile, but it is beneath contempt.
Neil Stockley has blogged on the striking parallels between the UK & NZ at the moment, and the lessons for the British (!) from Keys' success in finding a narrative that is proving more attractive for many than more fairness and prudence.


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A terceira temporada da série de televisão de drama médico The Good Doctor foi ordenada em fevereiro de 2019 pela ABC. Teve sua estreia em 23 de setembro de 2019 e foi concluída em 30 de março de 2020, contando com 20 episódios, diferentemente das temporadas anteriores que tiveram 18 episódios cada.

A temporada foi produzida pela Sony Pictures Television e pela ABC Studios, em associação com as produtoras Shore Z Productions, 3AD e Entermedia. David Shore serve como o showrunner e Daniel Dae Kim é um produtor executivo da série.

Enredo
A série segue Shaun Murphy, um jovem cirurgião autista com síndrome de savant da cidade de tamanho médio de Casper, Wyoming, onde teve uma infância conturbada. Ele se muda para San Jose, Califórnia, para trabalhar no prestigiado Hospital San Jose St. Bonaventure.

Elenco e personagens

Principal
 Freddie Highmore como Dr. Shaun Murphy
 Nicholas Gonzalez como Dr. Neil Melendez
 Antonia Thomas como Dra. Claire Browne
 Fiona Gubelmann como Dra. Morgan Reznick
 Will Yun Lee como Dr. Alex Park
 Christina Chang como Dra. Audrey Lim
 Paige Spara como Lea Dilallo
 Jasika Nicole como Dr. Carly Lever
 Hill Harper como Dr. Marcus Andrews
 Richard Schiff como Dr. Aaron Glassman

Recorrente
 Tamlyn Tomita como Allegra Aoki
 Teryl Rothery como J.L.
 Sheila Kelley como Debbie Wexler
 Dylan Kingwell como Steve Murphy
 Sharon Leal como Breeze Brown

Episódios

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Lance-Sergeant Semple, 1 Platoon, 18th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, landed at H-Hour on 6 June on [the] beach west of Courseulles-sur-Mer, France. Although working conditions were entirely adverse and unexpected, he assembled his party and cleared a 50-yard gap through obstacles on the beach to permit landing craft to beach unhindered. Working in four feet of water hampering the troops, and in order to save time, Lance-Sergeant Semple led the men in moving obstacles without checking mines, shells and attached charges for traps, etc.
The gap was completed under enemy fire, and Lance-Sergeant Semple, although wounded, continued to lead his party until work was complete when he led them to shelter and assisted in taking enemy prisoners and in clearing wounded.


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What are your top choices of hot spots in Knoxville? Tell us in the comments section.
Raven Records & Rarities (5710 Kingston Pike, 865-558-0066) and Wild Honey Records (5204 Homberg Dr., 865-588-8823). For collectibles check the vinyl outpost of the locally beloved Raven, but for a wider selection, says Keegan, head to Wild Honey. Both are located in the city's Bearden district.
Union Ave. Books (517 Union Ave.; 865-951-2180): Keegan compares this independent bookstore to regionally well-known and beloved bookshop, Malaprop's in Asheville, and says one of her favorite aspects on the bookstore is that they host "lots of readings and signings." Owners Melinda Meador and Floss McNabb are committed to the idea of the bookstore as a community center, "Can an online purchase ever give you the rush of gratification that comes when you walk out of a bookstore, book in arm, smile on face, knowing that the book you carry just might change the way you look at the world," they ask on their Web site.
Marble City Brewing Co. and The Quarry tasting room (708 East Depot Ave.): A newer addition to the craft beer scene, Keegan favors this brewery and their tap room for "a quiet beer and play a hand of cards." Their beers, like Dad's Dime Amber Ale and Nectar Rubus Raspberry Wheat Ale, are also sold at restaurants in the area.
Also, some old-standbys that are favorites: Downtown Brewery (424 South Gay St.; 865-633-8111), Nama (multiple locations) is Keegan's top pick for sushi, and Preservation Pub (28 Market Square; 865-524-2224) for music and beer, which recently expanded to an upstairs and a rooftop patio.
I always think of the waterfront when I think of Knoxville, especially the large stones with colorful quotes about the scruffy little city on the river. When my parents visited us there, that was one of the first places I wanted to take them.
Oh Knoxville, how I miss you!
Some great spots for all you hipsters looking for food & drinks downtown and in the Old City are Tomato Head (try the Kepner Melt, trust me, just try it), The French Market, Harry's Delicatessen, and Old City Java (you're gonna want to splurge and get a mocha milkshake).
If you want to eat at a Knoxville hole-in-the-wall, head to Vestal (South Knoxville) to King Tut's. It's truly a dining experience like no other. All I can say is: Greek salad, costumes, and karaoke. And if you're extra lucky, you'll meet the Angel of Vestal himself.
Also, I really think everyone visiting Knoxville should check out the East Tennessee History Center on Gay Street. Admission is usually free and they have a great permanent exhibit called "Voices of the Land" about the region, plus the gift shop has a great book selection.
While you're on Gay Street, check out Yeehaw Industries and Morelock Music if you're into printmaking or guitars. And maybe do some people-watching on Market Square.
And if you make it out West to Farragut, you gotta try Pizza Kitchen. Man, I could go on forever. Knoxville rules.
OH MAN, I can't believe I left out the absolute shining star of Knoxville! The Blue Plate Special at WDVX, free live Americana music Mon-Sat. at noon!


GreensulateTM is an affordable, biodegradable replacement for polystyrene/polyurethane foam building products, poised to replace petrol-foams in the rigid board insulation market. This patent pending technology uses the vegetative growth stage of a benign fungus (mycelium: P.ostreatus, I.obliquus, F.formentarius A.arvensis) to bond loose particles into a cohesive whole. The fungus operates as a self-assembling resin, thus the composite has a low embodied energy requiring no light, heat, or petroleum inputs during the growth process, emitting no hazardous byproducts or water contaminants. Minerals (vermiculite, perlite) currently are implemented as the bulking particle within the insulating composite, which have yielded a comparable thermal conductivity to standard foams while exhibiting superior fire retardancy and safety (no related volatile organic compounds/allergens). ASTM compliance testing for the mineral composite's structural and water sorption properties is being conducted under a New York State grant, which also will produce full-scale prototypes and potential manufacturing techniques for commercial production.
The economic and environmental costs associated with the production and transport of the aforementioned minerals are significant enough to seek agricultural analogs. Agricultural byproducts such as rice hulls, cottonseed hulls, and soybean hulls, have negligible commercial value and each has the potential to serve as a direct replacement for the minerals. The key objective in implementing these agricultural byproducts is to reduce material expenses, maintain or improve the thermal characteristics, and increase composite biodegradability. Greensulate is a multifunctional (insulation and firewall) construction material that could potentially retail for one-half the cost of petrol-foams, reducing a customer's initial capital building expense. The agricultural-based composite would create further economic incentives since the composite would be highly applicable for the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation.
Ecovative Design is comprised of an experienced team of engineers and scientists focused on replacing petrol-foam products, such as insulation, with the GreensulateTM technology. The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Fire Protection Engineering facilities have offered their additional expertise and equipment for testing the materials' thermal properties and combustibility. A potential commercialization partner has taken particular interest in the insulating composite in its nascent stage, and pending positive results this corporation will further pursue the technology and collaborate on manufacturing. The Greensulate composite is applicable in a range of diverse industries beyond construction, including: packaging materials, horticultural/agricultural products, and internalized rigid cores.


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